Flight and Freedom
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Flight and Freedom

Stories of Escape to Canada

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Flight and Freedom

Stories of Escape to Canada

About this book

The global number of people currently displaced from their home country—more than 50 million—is higher than at any time since World War II. Yet in recent years Canada has deported, denied, and diverted countless refugees. Is Canada a safe haven for refugees or a closed door?

In Flight and Freedom, Ratna Omidvar and Dana Wagner present a collection of thirty astonishing interviews with refugees, their descendants, or their loved ones to document their extraordinary, and sometimes harrowing, journeys of flight. The stories span two centuries of refugee experiences in Canada: from the War of 1812—where an escaped slave and her infant daughter flee the United States to start a new life in Halifax—to the War in Afghanistan—where asylum seekers collide with state scrutiny and face the challenges of resettlement.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Preface: Ratna Omidvar
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Abbreviations
  7. Introduction
  8. Who Is a Refugee?
  9. 1 Adeline Oliver
  10. 2 Mampre Shirinian
  11. 3 Loly Rico
  12. 4 Ken (Khanh) Do
  13. 5 Hodan Ali
  14. 6 Claudio DurĂĄn
  15. 7 Rabbi Erwin Schild
  16. 8 Randy Singh
  17. 9 Marguerite Nyandwi
  18. 10 Andrew Hidi
  19. 11 Sorpong Peou
  20. 12 Tarun
  21. 13 Yodit Negusse
  22. 14 Chairuth (Chai) Bouphaphanh
  23. 15 Zafar Iravan
  24. 16 Samnang Eam
  25. 17 Marko
  26. 18 Iren Hessami Koltermann
  27. 19 Anwar Arkani
  28. 20 Elvis
  29. 21 Humaira
  30. 22 Joseph
  31. 23 Christine
  32. 24 Mie Tha Lah
  33. 25 Max Farber
  34. 26 Shabnam
  35. 27 Robi Botos
  36. 28 Karim Teja
  37. 29 Avtar Sandhu
  38. 30 Sabreen
  39. Then and Now: Would They Get In Today?
  40. Notes
  41. Index
  42. About the Authors
  43. Back Cover